Do Son Scented Hand Cream

What it is: A velvety hand cream formulated to protect your hands while scenting them with a fragrance of tuberose, orange blossom and jasmine.

Fragrance story: The lotion contains aloe vera and macadamia oil, both of which visibly protect and revitalize skin, and can also be used to nourish the cuticles and nails. It is fragranced with a tuberose scent that brings to mind the sunset hour, when the white flowers stand out against the darkness of the wooden pagoda. Diptyque draws its inspiration from the history of perfume by reinventing the textures of scent to offer a new approach to personal scenting, deemed Fragrance Gestures. It is a way to make the invisible sensual, and the ethereal tangible. Each of the gestures—eau de toilette, perfume oil, body mist or body balm—has a specific concentrate designed to offer the best olfactory rendering depending on its formulation. With its high concentration, it can often be used alone depending on the moment and the mood. This fragrance was inspired by Yves Coueslant, one of diptyque's founders, who as a child spent his summers at the seaside in the pagoda that his father had built in Do Son, close to Ha Long Bay. Far from the humid heat of the large port in Haiphong, the air was cooler there. The sea breeze carried with it the heady and slightly spicy scent of the tuberoses that his mother loved so much. Do Son has both the delicateness and the persistence of a memory from a childhood in Indochina. At the Haiphong market, tuberoses are wrapped together with jasmine and ylang-ylang in large canna leaves to be used as offerings.